New ComEd Rate Changes

Proposed tariff changes will raise rates for larger than average accounts, and reduce rates for smaller than average accounts starting in January 2015.

For aggregation communities, this means that the essential cost strutures will not be known when programs are re-priced in Spring 2014. These unknowns may force suppliers to increase risk premiums for aggregation program pricing.

Because aggregation programs have established track records of stable and simple pricing to residents, these undefined Transmission and Capacity rate changes present new challenges to aggregation communities:

Need to change prices ahead of January 2015

Inability to guarantee savings against the ComEd Price to Compare

Best Practices for Aggregation Programs

Update Pricing Terms

Avoid risk premiums – Guarantees increase supplier risk

Update pass-through provisions in Plan of Governance and Contracts

Support changes to the Price to Compare by the ICC to present it as a variable rate